Reena’s Xploration Challenge #412

Posted on by Reena Saxena

Welcome to 2026!

Wishing all of you a great year ahead, and hope you had a great holiday season.

PROMPT #412

Here are lines from two different poets to inspire you.

We climb, one breath, one step at a time
not knowing if the summit is ours
by choice, by fate, or quiet design.
The path remembers what we forget:
why we began, and where we belong.

Author: Unknown

“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

Choose any one, internalize it and write from the point where it takes you.

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WRAPPING THE LAST CHALLENGE OF 2025

Jim Adams

Susi Bocks

Jules Paige

Susan St.Pierre

Rockstar Girl

Sadje

Ramya Tantry

Carol Anne

David

David

Christine Bialczak

Suzette B

Rohini

Lesley Scoble

Nancy

Nancy

Destiny

Indira

Eugi

Cheryl

Michelle Navajas

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  22. May we all find relationships that can bring us comfort. Best to all for the New Year!

    This verse, a Kimo Puente I wrote for Tanka Tuesday fits both of the poems you shared for inspiration. I’m hoping for a resolution sometime this afternoon in regards to one particular ‘problem’… Maybe I’ll post about it, maybe not.

    Here’s Adeus ao velho e olá ao novo

    https://julesinflashyfiction.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/nd-01-06-xxvi-tanka-tuesday-46-kimo-puente/

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